Keep Yourself From Embarassing Yourself

The smart whiz kids over at Google’s Gmail came out recently with a new feature that basically prevents the digital equivalent of beer goggles, hence the name Mail Goggles.

It’s one of those things in life that are super simple, no brainiac needed. Every time you send an email from Gmail, there’s a delay before it actually gets sent so that you can realize that the email attachment that you wanted to send wasn’t really attached — now you can go off and attach that file so you don’t have to send one of those “OOPS!” emails right after the first one.

I started to think, hey, that’s not so special? And guess what…I was right!

I use MS Outlook as my desktop email reader, so I quickly figured out that Outlook has the ability to build some Mail Goggles too. Here’s how:

Simply go to TOOLS > RULES & ALERTS > NEW RULE…

Select “CHECK MESSAGES AFTER SENDING”

Click “NEXT” without checking any boxes on Step 1 page

You’ll find the DEFER DELIVERY BY __ MINUTES option

Now, every email you send will be held just for a brief time so that you have a second to think if that really was meant to be sent. You’ll have the ability to re-edit the email and attach a file as originally intended, or finesse the wording of the somewhat generic email.

There you go: Mail Goggles for Oulook

Let me know what you think, or if this feature has saved your face and leave a comment below.